4 Maccabees 4:15-17

Revised Standard Version

Antiochus’s Persecution of the Jews

¹⁵ When King Seleu′cus died, his son Anti′ochus Epiph′anes succeeded to the throne, an arrogant and terrible man, ¹⁶ who removed Oni′as from the priesthood and appointed Oni′as’s^[a] brother Jason as high priest. ¹⁷ Jason^[b] agreed that if the office were conferred upon him he would pay the king three thousand six hundred and sixty talents annually.